(09-15-2025, 10:48 AM)Josh1873 Wrote: I think the issue is tactical in how we play, rather than personale. On days like Saturday you need to move the ball a lot quicker and play at a higher tempo. You also need the run of the ball and a bit of luck, which was absent!
I'm not sure having Styles in midfield and an untried in our team LB would have made much difference. Or whatever tweaks have been mentioned here.
On the rare occasions I catch PL football - it's often City or Liverpool v the rest. The rest set up like Derby did, and even world class teams, with wonderfully talented individual players, struggle to break down dogged and we'll organised teams who sit deep. It's a really difficult task.
Interesting take. I think the opposite fwiw though.
We are getting players into good attacking positions, we have more numbers in the final 2 lateral channels than we have before. We are clocking up plenty of progressive passes and having plenty of shots.
So tactically things are okay. The issue is the chances to play a final pass or take a shot are falling to players without that natural attacking ability and instinct.